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A 45-year-old woman is dead as a result of an industrial accident at a plastics facility in Helena, Ala.
Eva Saenz, 45, of Alabaster, was working at ABC Polymer Industries LLC when the accident... View Full Details »

Roughly 30 minutes after Inge Thulin, 3M's chairman, president and CEO, announced on Twitter that he would step down from the Jobs Manufacturing Initiative, President Trump said he would dissolve... View Full Details »

Recycling is making global headlines this year, and that's good news for the leading player in the plastics recycling equipment market, Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen GmbH.
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Tighter supplies and slightly higher feedstock costs combined to drive North American PET bottle resin prices up in July.
Regional prices for the material increased by an average of 1.5 cents per... View Full Details »

A doctor ordered a feeding tube for a patient who was 35 weeks pregnant and hospitalized for vomiting and weight loss.
A nurse mistakenly hooked the tube for the liquid-food bag to the woman's... View Full Details »

Ann Arbor, Mich. — Robots continue to march ahead, as the Association for Advancing Automation reports the North American robotics market had its best opening half-year ever to start 2017.... View Full Details »

Scott Barbour, who last led Emerson Electric's $4.5 billion global network power business, will succeed Joe Chlapaty as president and CEO of Hilliard, Ohio-based Advanced Drainage Systems,... View Full Details »

Elmet GmbH, an Austrian operating system supplier for the injection molding of two-component liquid silicone rubbers (LSR), has introduced a standardized barcode system for drum labeling and... View Full Details »